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In most European countries each large town will have at least one football team who play in leagues, which last August to May in most of Europe but March to October in others. Unlike most American sports, the top teams in each league go up a league to be replaced by the last teams in the league above. The top teams in the top division of each European country enter the UEFA Champions League, a league and knockout competition played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays around the season.
In most European countries each large town will have at least one football team who play in leagues, which last August to May in most of Europe but March to October in others. Unlike most American sports, the top teams in each league go up a league to be replaced by the last teams in the league above. The top teams in the top division of each European country enter the UEFA Champions League, a league and knockout competition played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays around the season.
==Soccer and socialism==
The nature and rules of soccer very much resemble [[socialism]] in many ways:<ref>http://blog.american.com/?p=16158</ref><ref>http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/soccer_the_perfect_socialist_s.html</ref>
* The "off-sides" rule prohibits using certain aggressive ("unfair") tactics in the game.
* Soccer is very bureaucratic, and teams are very much tied to their countries.
* The US is often treated unfairly by other nations in the game, one reason being soccer's lack of popularity in the US - socialism always claimed to favor the absolute will of the majority rather than personal and economic freedom of the individual.
* In youth leagues, everyone gets a trophy for their efforts regardless of achievement, and there is no scoring in the game.
* Even the World Cup encourages "achievement" by holding a third-place game for the two losers in the semifinals.
* [[Union]] [[strikes]], even during the playing season, are a major issue with soccer.
* Riots caused by "hooligans" - fans of a team which lost a game - often include violent crimes, such as infringement on private property rights.
* Participants are known to behave dishonestly and illegally and act against the interests of their team in order to gain financially themselves.<ref>http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/62773.html</ref>
* Soccer coaches only need a vocabulary of about 100 words to coach their teams <ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8448287/How-to-coach-a-football-team-with-100-words.html</ref>, which is reminiscent of socialist pandering to the lowest common denominator. At least twice as many ''conservative'' words alone originated in the 20th century.
==Great Players==
==Great Players==